Microsoft confirmed a widespread outage Thursday affecting Microsoft 365 services including Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Copilot 365 and Defender XDR, primarily across North and South America. The company said servers had gone offline, causing elevated network load, and that it was rerouting traffic and restarting affected servers while pausing all deployments. By mid-afternoon Microsoft had not confirmed a root cause or resolution timeline.
wired.com
· 2026-11-12
Microsoft confirmed a widespread Microsoft 365 disruption affecting Outlook, Teams, Copilot and SharePoint Online for users across the Americas, with Downdetector logging over 129,000 reports shortly after it began. Microsoft said an unusually large number of servers failed automated health checks and became unavailable, overloading remaining infrastructure, and the company restarted affected systems while rerouting traffic without giving a restoration timeline.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-12
A widespread Microsoft outage on Thursday affected Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and CoPilot, with Downdetector logging nearly 83,000 Outlook reports at its peak. Microsoft said at noon that the issue was resolved, but users continued reporting problems into the afternoon, and the company's own status page appeared to be down for a time.
zdnet.com
· 2026-11-12
Microsoft confirmed an outage affecting multiple Microsoft 365 services this afternoon, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, Copilot 365 and Defender XDR. The company's support account acknowledged the issue, and both business/enterprise customers and individual users reported being affected, with some unable to even load the service status page.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-12
Microsoft Outlook suffered a major outage, with over 103,000 user reports on Downdetector, starting around 12:20 PM ET. Microsoft confirmed via its status account that it is investigating problems with Exchange Online mailbox access across multiple connection methods in the Americas, tracked under incident EX1550543.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-11-12
Microsoft confirmed an outage affecting its Outlook email service, initially reported in the U.S. and Americas before spreading globally. The company said the disruption also hit Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, Defender XDR, OneDrive, and Office for the web, blaming a large number of servers becoming unexpectedly unavailable.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-11-12
Microsoft confirmed a widespread disruption affecting Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, Copilot, Defender XDR and other 365 services starting Thursday at 1:26 PM ET, with Downdetector showing a surge in user complaints across regions. The company said the problem stemmed from a number of servers becoming unexpectedly unavailable, straining remaining infrastructure, rather than a traffic spike.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-11-12
Users globally reported being unable to access Outlook email via web and apps for over an hour. Microsoft's 365 Status account confirmed a portion of its infrastructure was experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, causing connectivity errors, with some Teams users also affected.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-12
Lubrizol is combining scientists, data scientists, and IT staff into joint 'fusion teams' to apply AI and cloud computing to chemical research, starting with small pilot projects. The company's Rao says this approach is being used to model new formulations, including sustainable alternatives like starch and corn-based materials, and to help scale lab discoveries into manufacturing.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-11-09
Google's Android Auto treats apps installed inside a managed Work Profile differently from personal apps, restricting their functionality on the car dashboard. Microsoft confirms Teams calls and meetings don't work through Android Auto when the app sits in a Work Profile, while Google Meet shows active calls but hides upcoming meetings and call history from that profile.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-02
A report on Microsoft Teams outlines four features within the platform that many of its over 320 million monthly active users may not be aware of, despite having been available for some time. These include tools aimed at keeping meetings on schedule and helping users recover unfinished messages after interruptions. The coverage frames these as practical aids for people working remotely and relying on Teams for daily communication.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-31
In an opinion piece for Entrepreneur, a contributor argues that marketing organizations will shift significantly by 2027 as AI agents take on continuous operational roles rather than just assisting with individual tasks. The author says agents will increasingly monitor performance, identify opportunities, and recommend or execute changes, moving human staff from executing tasks to managing these systems. The piece also stresses that shared knowledge about customers, past experiments and business priorities will become a competitive advantage when given to these agents.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-30
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